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You know, allow me to use a recycled term that was used by one of my favorite posters that I miss dearly:

"Everyone sucks, but not as much as Darros".

You look at Darros, and you realize "what a piece of shit I've been handed". His Spd growth is total ass (10% as a Pirate, 25% is the highest as a Hunter) and his Str growth is "okay". To make matters worse, his Spd base is 1 and he just seems all around mediocre... until you see his Def growth...

See, the funny thing is he has the highest Def growth of all the non-Sedgar / Wolf units, but let's face it: Armor Knights suck. E Lances suck, 5 Mov sucks, no real base stats sucks, being doubled sucks... pretty much the only way he redeems himself is through growths and a terrible class. 70% HP | 60% Def growth sounds cool, but let's be real to ourselves and remember that having 3 HP | 1 Def base isn't that cool. At least he has a little "utility" earlygame... but it isn't much.

tl;dr: Armor Knights suck, but not as much as Darros. He can't really function anywhere but this class, and they aren't even close to "good".

Mediocre growths and base stats. He's losing 4 AS with that steel axe he joins with, so he gets 2RKO'd (10x2, he has 21 HP) by pretty much every enemy pirate in his join map. He's actually pretty similar to Bord, just with a lower skill growth and axe rank.

He can be an alright Armor if you want him to be, with a very high DEF growth. Sure he still kinda sucks but I think the sheer definsive power he can get is worth just a tad more than you guys are really giving him credit for, not much more though.

I've never played on H2, so I'm not going to give a rank, but I still don't like Darros. I really want to like him. I have a soft spot for big, slow, unwieldy axe users, but these characters almost invariably suck due to their poor speed. He's the only character that joins as a pirate, but I'd rather just reclass Barst.

As a side note, he actually had 40% defense growth in FE1, as opposed to his 30% here. That was back when IS decided that fighters would have high defense. Now they have bad defense. At least they tend to get speed nowadays. Oh wait... except Darros.

As a side note, he actually had 40% defense growth in FE1, as opposed to his 30% here. That was back when IS decided that fighters would have high defense. Now they have bad defense. At least they tend to get speed nowadays. Oh wait... except Darros.

... but if everyone's getting weaker by pretty much the same then that means it's utterly pointless beyond removing like two points from a ten-point scale. Not to mention H2 is assumed anyway, so why even bother?